Using characters known to recorded history--including one to become the real Sheriff of Nottingham--Elizabeth Ashworth weaves a tale of loves lost and found during the exile of Richard the Lionheart Richard Fitz-Eustace's return from Palestine is far from joyous. Damned by leprosy, he must bid his family a final and sorrowful farewell and leave his estates at Halton Castle forever. Condemned to shun the company of others, he must now find...